A shooting in the austrian capital vienna the government calls it a terrorist attack ugandan politician bobby wine is arrested again shortly after he was nominated for next years president ial elections. And the sports news argentine football legend Diego Maradona has been admitted to hospital although hes done to says its not related to code 19 all of the details coming up this hour. Its 1500 g. M. T. And 10 am in the eastern United States where polls are open for one of the most controversial and highly anticipated elections in recent years donald trump and joe biden have campaigned for months its now up to the American Public people in all but 5 states are now voting with 3 of those california idaho and oregon opening their. Polls this hour the man battling for the presidency havent stopped campaigning with biden in scranton pennsylvania and trump in arlington virginia. Lets speak to our coverage good begin our coverage by speaking to alan fischer in washington d. C. Allan where int
A michael local welcome to d w special coverage of the Munich Security Conference the annual event brings together World Leaders top ministers and experts the 1st day of talks have already shown potential progress talks between the u. S. And the taliban may lead to a fresh Peace Process for afghanistan and an unprecedented meeting between chinese and vatican diplomats has taken place for the 1st time in decades one topic has dominated the conference fears that the western powers could be losing their unified front on friday germanys president warned that a lack of western solidarity was fueling global insecurity todays panel is set to tackle that topic with nato chief u. N. Stoltenberg and u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei oh joined by pretentiously the Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov we also. Understand that mark esper the u. S. Defense secretary may also be at the talk today at the event in munich we have de w. s chief Political Editor me. And here in the studio im joined b
Thats already been described as proved offensive and downright embarrassing. For a good afternoon welcome to the program just turned 1 pm here in moscow this friday afternoon the 16th of august money if the next 30 minutes with a live news update for you and 1st talk about those 2 russian pilots that hailed as heroes now after they averted potential disaster yes they mourning their plane lost both engines after striking a flock of birds while taking off from Moscow International airport forcing them to really quickly make an Emergency Landing all 226 passengers on board and Airlines Flight survived is the good news. It was. The thing was it all happened so quickly the pilots werent able to return to the airport as that barely got airborne reaching altitude just about 260 metres but they acted so decisively opting to land that plane on its belly in a cornfield with the wheels up just over a kilometer from the end of the runway they just come off not having time either to empty the fuel
Being described as proof. 247 news live from moscow this is r. T. International from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome our top story to russian pilots being hailed as heroes after they had potential disaster on thursday morning their plane lost the use of both engines after striking a flock of birds while taking off from moscow as you called ski International Airport forcing them to make an Emergency Landing all 226 passengers 7 crew members as well on board the crimea and Airlines Flight survived. Ah. Well it all happened so quickly about the pilots werent able to return to the report as they barely got are born reaching an altitude of roughly 260 meters but they acted decisively opting to land the plane on its belly in a cornfield with the wheels up just over a kilometer from the runway and without having time to empty the fuel tanks the pilot to income on 41 year old yusupov had previously been a lawyer before training as a pilot hed been flying with your all earli
And Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, lisa desjardins. Desjardins good evening, and thanks for joining us. Twoandahalf weeks after conceding defeat, Hillary Clintons Campaign Today said it now supports president ial election recounts in three pivotal and closelycontested states wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania. Today, clinton lawyer marc elias wrote in a post on the web sit medium that data scientists working for the campaign were already checking official vote totals in every state. Then, Green Party Candidate jill stein formally filed a wisconsin recount petition yesterday. She announced plans to do the same in michigan and pennsylvania by monday. Elias said elias said Going Forward the Clinton Campaign will be represented in any